Montfort had been built for the children of the British officials who once ruled India, but by the time I arrived in 1961, nearly all the students were from powerful Indian families. Its English traditions, however, continued.

　　When I returned home for the holidays still wearing my uniform, people stared at me like I was an alien.

　　“Speak some English, ” they teased. Looking back, I unwittingly brought a bit of English culture to my village.

　　But English and too many Western influences are precisely what many traditionalists and politicians fear. They ask: Will such influences finish off our own culture?

　　Various leaders have tried to erase the British traditions, pulling down old British statues and replacing many British-rule city names with older native names. Some even advocate changing our weekly day of rest from the “Western” Sunday to the “Hindu” Tuesday.

　　Extreme responses I say. You can’t change history, and it’s only natural for foreign influences to affect a nation’s culture. So Indian culture, as it is today, is really a mixture derived from centuries of foreign invasions.

　　Add to that the massive changes of the 20th century resulting from the television, jet-age travel, the Internet, etc. .

　　Everything from clothes and language to food keeps changing, yet we remain Indian. I believe that Asian cultures are too ancient and deep-rooted to be weakened by foreign influences.

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